Programming Twitter's latest tizzy is about 0-based month indices, particularly in JS, where all programming discussions start or lead to here. Do you want to know more about the origins of this? Well, here you go. Unsurprisingly, it's about legacy and constraints of the era. 🧵

Increasingly seems like just selling them to the highest bidder might have been a good idea

It looks like the US government is even managing to fuck up the pandemic handling AFTER THEY ALREADY APPROVED THE VACCINE. Which was developed in two days in March and they've been prohibiting you from taking the risk of taking the vaccine in case it makes you sick.

This is the best possible way to go into the new year for me.

I hope I get a chance to see this code, because it sounds absolutely twisted in the best way

What kills me is that there are people who will see this and still say, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

Good riddance, 2020. Hello, 2021. While some cities would launch fireworks over empty streets, others, such as London and Singapore, called their displays off. Paris, Rome and Istanbul were under curfew. english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/…

It is actually genuinely a little touching to see something I've been looking forward to for (at least) a decade finally come to pass

3…2…1…Happy Public Domain Day! Time for us all to adapt/adopt/blatantly plagiarize the 1925 works now free to all—including books by Kafka, Fitzgerald, and Woolf, films by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, & a movie aptly titled "Lovers in Quarantine": web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdom…

8) Holy crap, according to UK 🇬🇧 researchers, by tracking the S Gene dropout PCR test, we estimate the new B117 variant has a R that is 1.74x high - for an R net increase of +0.9 to +1.6!! Cmon Thermo Fisher, release the sequence & save lives!!! #COVID19 x.com/dgurdasani1/st…

I hear hospitals in LA are resorting to setting up ICU beds in the cafeterias, hallways, &hospital chapels.Some hospitals over 100 percent capacity. Wait 2weeks after all the reckless fools partied tonight & spread the virus & it will unsustainable. Poor health care workers.

1. reverse engineering a patch in RNA is fucking rad 2. why the fuck do we have to reverse engineer it. why the fuck is this information not freely available. berthub.eu/articles/posts…

I see a lot of people saying things like "we're at the height of a pandemic" and "thank goodness 2020 is over". Like they think the pandemic will start declining now. Well, it might. Or it might not. It certainly hasn't yet. This is *new* cases per day: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Covi…

It’s 2 AM. My husband is still awake and hacking. 7 d after fever started and 6 d after being diagnosed with COVID. And he’s telling me no one has filled his ER shift in 4 hr so he’s expected to work. CDC guidelines say a minimum of 10 days and if sx improving. Cough is not.

Wide-ranging notes on diverse technical topics. I'd get the HTML version if you're at a desktop.

and they wonder why the US is #1 in th world in covid deaths per capita